Summary
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Qualitative research, especially ethnography, has seen a paradigm shift since 1968. This so-called ‘Third Moment’ was concerned with the critical issue of the textual representation of ethnographic work. There was a call for a turn towards texts that mirrored the messiness of social life, that were faithful to the many voices of social worlds, in which the artfulness of ethnographic writing was manifest and in which the ethnographer was visibly present in the text.
This major work, Ethnographic Discourse, brings together into one set all the important material on this ‘rhetorical turn’ in qualitative research. Many of the critiques of the rhetorical turn are particularly hard to obtain and have never been gathered together in an accessible way.
Volume I focuses on the contexts and controversies of ...
Editors' Introduction: Ethnographic Representation and Rhetoric
Sometimes a particular book or journal article marks the arrival in the spotlight of a new argument or standpoint. When James Clifford and George Marcus (1986) edited a collection of papers called Writing Culture they were creating one of those moments. Twenty-one years later, that volume is still controversial, and the issues they highlighted have remained important ever since (cf. Jacobson 1991, Spencer 2001). It was widely held to be a prime mover in the so-called ‘crisis of representation’ in cultural and social anthropology. In the twenty-plus years since the publication of that edited collection, social scientists across many disciplines have become increasingly aware of the textual nature of their arguments, and of the methodological – even ...
Table of Contents
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Volume 1: Contexts and Controversies
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1. Functionalists Write, Too: Frazer/Malinowski and the Semiotics of the Monograph
James Boon
1983
Semiotica
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Fred Davis
1974
Urban Life and Culture
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3. Looking Both Ways: The Ethnographer in the Text
Michael Herzfeld
1983
Semiotica
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4. Styles of Reporting Qualitative Field Research
John Lofland
1974
The American Sociologist
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5. Slide Show: Evans-Pritchard's African Transparencies
Clifford Geertz
1983
Raritan
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6. The Emergence of Self-Consciousness in Ethnography
Dennison Nash | Ronald Wintrob
1972
Current Anthropology
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7. On the Writing of Ethnography
Vincent Crapanzano
1977
Dialectical Anthropology
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8. The Analogical Tradition and the Emergence of a Dialogical Anthropology
Dennis Tedlock
1979
Journal of Anthropological Research
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9. What Written Knowledge Does: Three Examples of Academic Discourse
Charles Bazerman
1981
Philosophy of the Social Sciences
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10. Dialectical Irony: Literary Form and Sociological Theory
Richard Brown
1993
Poetics Today
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11. On Ethnographic Surrealism
James Clifford
1981
Comparative Studies in Society and History
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Paul Atkinson
1982
Kultur und Institution
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13. From Rapport Under Erasure to Theaters of Complicit Reflexivity
George Marcus
2001
Qualitative Inquiry
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14. Rhetoric and the Authority of Ethnography: “Postmodernism” and the Social Reproduction of Texts
P. Sangren
1988
Current Anthropology
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Volume 2: Reading Qualitative Research
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Donald McCloskey
1983
Journal of Economic Literature
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16. Textual Persuasion: The Role of Social Accounting in the Construction of Scientific Arguments
Steven Yearley
1981
Philosophy of the Social Science
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17. Irony as a Methodological Theory: A Sketch of Four Sociological Variations
Digby Anderson | Wesley Sharrock
1983
Poetics Today
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18. Confronting Ethnography's Crisis of Representation
Norman Denzin
2002
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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19. Four Ways to Improve the Craft of Fieldwork
Robert Emerson
1987
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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George Marcus | Dick Cushman
1982
Annual Review of Anthropology
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21. The “Crisis” in Representation: Reflections and Assessments
Michael Flaherty
2002
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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George Marcus
2002
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
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23. The Crisis in Representation: A Brief History and Some Questions
Michael Flaherty
2002
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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Peter Manning
2002
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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25. Anthropology as a Kind of Writing
Jonathan Spencer
1989
Man (N.S)
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26. On Ethnographic Self-Fashioning: Conrad and Malinowski
J. Clifford
1985
Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality, and the Self in Western Thought
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Paul Atkinson
1989
Human Studies
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28. A Partisan View: Sarcasm, Satire and Irony as Voices in Erving Goffman's Asylums
Gary Fine | Daniel Martin
1990
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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29. Out of Context: The Persuasive Fictions of Anthropology
Marilyn Strathern
1987
Current Anthropology
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30. The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective
Frances Mascia-Lees | Patricia Sharpe | Colleen Cohen
1989
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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Volume 3: Analysis and Voice in Qualitative Research
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31. Qualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations
Amanda Coffey | Beverley Holbrook | Paul Atkinson
1996
Sociological Research Online
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32. “Deja Entendu”: The Liminal Qualities of Anthropological Fieldnotes
Jean Jackson
1990
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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33. On Writing Fieldnotes: Collection Strategies and Background Expectancies
Nicholas Wolfinger
2002
Qualitative Research
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34. Representing Discourse: The Rhetoric of Transcription
Elliot Mishler
1991
Journal of Narrative and Life History
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35. Qualitative Research and Translation Dilemmas
Bogusia Temple | Alys Young
2004
Qualitative Research
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36. Abduction as the Type of Inference that Characterizes the Development of a Grounded Theory
Rudy Richardson | Eric Kramer
2006
Qualitative Research
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37. Fear of Offending: Disclosing Researcher Discomfort When Engaging in Analysis
Marie Hoskins | Jo-Anne Stoltz
2005
Qualitative Research
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38. The Presentation of Everyday Life: Some Textual Strategies for “Adequate Ethnography”
Kenneth Stoddart
1986
Urban Life
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39. “Dear Researcher”: The Use of Correspondence as a Method within Feminist Qualitative Research
Gayle Letherby | Dawn Zdrodowski
1995
Gender & Society
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40. Gender, the Personal, and the Voice of Scholarship: A Viewpoint
Suzanne Fleischman
1998
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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41. Problems of Editing “First-Person” Sociology
Bob Blauner
1987
Qualitative Sociology
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42. A Taste for “the Other”: Intellectual Complicity in Racializing Practices
Virginia Dominguez
1994
Current Anthropology
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43. How Native is a “Native” Anthropologist?
Kirin Narayan
1993
American Anthropologist
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44. Explaining the Present: Theoretical Dilemmas in Processual Ethnography
Sally Moore
1987
American Ethnologist
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45. The Collective Story: Postmodernism and the Writing of Sociology
Laurel Richardson
1988
Sociological Focus
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46. Falling through the ‘Savage Slot’: Postcolonial Critique and the Ethnographic Task
Diane Austin-Broos
1998
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
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47. Troubles in the Field: The Use of Personal Experiences as Sources of Knowledge
Anne-Marie Fortier
1996
Critique of Anthropology
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48. Storytelling and the Interpretation of Meaning in Qualitative Research
Patricia Bailey | Stephen Tilley
2002
Journal of Advanced Nursing
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49. Studying the Self: From the Subjective and the Social to Personal and Political Dialogues
Paula Saukko
2002
Qualitative Research
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50. Beyond “Subjectivity”: The Use of the Self in Social Science
Susan Krieger
1985
Qualitative Sociology
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51. Writing Culture, Writing Feminism: The Poetics and Politics of Experimental Ethnography
Deborah Gordon
1988
Inscriptions
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52. Defining Feminist Ethnography
Kamala Visweswaran
1988
Inscriptions
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Volume 4: Writing and Representation
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53. What's Wrong with Ethnography? The Myth of Theoretical Description
Martyn Hammersley
1990
Sociology
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54. Doing Ethnography, Writing Ethnography: A Comment on Hammersley
Liz Stanley
1990
Sociology
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Jim Mienczakowski
1995
Qualitative Inquiry
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56. Reading and Writing Performance
Norman Denzin
2003
Qualitative Research
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57. The Sea Monster: An Ethnographic Drama
Laurel Richardson | Ernest Lockridge
1991
Symbolic Interaction
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58. Fiction and Ethnography: A Conversation
Laurel Richardson | Ernest Lockridge
1998
Qualitative Inquiry
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59. Balancing the Berimbau: Embodied Ethnographic Understanding
Neil Stephens | Sara Delamont
2006
Qualitative Inquiry
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60. The Fatal Flaw: A Narrative of the Fragile Body-Self
Andrew Sparkes
1996
Qualitative Inquiry
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61. Finding the Limits: Autoethnography and Being an Oxford University Proctor
Geoffrey Walford
2004
Qualitative Research
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Leon Anderson
2006
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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63. Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography: An Autopsy
Carolyn Ellis | Arthur Bochner
2006
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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64. Show Me a Sign
Ivan Brady
2002
Qualitative Inquiry
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William Tierney
2002
Qualitative Inquiry
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66. The Anthropologist's Son (or, Living and Learning the Field)
Patrick Murphy
2002
Qualitative Inquiry
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67. On Auto/Biography in Sociology
Liz Stanley
1993
Sociology
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68. “Plenty Confidence in Myself”: The Initiation of a White Woman Scholar into Haitian Vodou
Karen Brown
1987
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
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69. “Three Women, One Struggle”: Anthropology, Performance, and Pedagogy
Faye Harrison
1990
Transforming Anthropology
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Marianne Paget
1990
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
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Rhonda Jeffries
2003
Black Women in the Field
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72. Text Bites and the R-Word: The Politics of Representing Scholarship
Jocelyn Linnekin
1991
The Contemporary Pacific
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73. Deconstructing Dissemination: Dissemination as Qualitative Research
Vivienne Barnes | Deanne Clouder | Jackie Pritchard | Christina Hughes | Judy Purkis
2003
Qualitative Research
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Pat Sikes
2005
Qualitative Research
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75. Dissolution and Reconstitution of Self: Implications for Anthropological Epistemology
Dorinne Kondo
1986
Cultural Anthropology
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Patti Lather
1995
Qualitative Inquiry
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77. Survival in the Field: Implications of Personal Experience in Field Work
Michael Clarke
1975
Theory and Society
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78. Sociological Introspection and Emotional Experience
Carolyn Ellis
1991
Symbolic Interaction
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